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Treating wastewater with ozone could convert pharmaceuticals into toxic compounds

05/02/2020

With water scarcity intensifying, wastewater treatment and reuse are gaining popularity. But some methods for killing microbes in wastewater create disinfection byproducts (DBPs) that could be harmful to human health. Now researchers have found that ozone treatment and subsequent chlorination can convert trace amounts of some pharmaceuticals in wastewater into DBPs called halonitromethanes.

How US sewage plants can remove medicines from wastewater

08/01/2020

A study of seven wastewater treatment plants in the Eastern United States points to two treatment methods - granular activated carbon and ozonation - as particularly promising. Each technique reduced the concentration of a number of pharmaceuticals, including certain antidepressants and antibiotics, in water by more than 95%, the scientists' analysis found.

Plant research could benefit wastewater treatment, biofuels and antibiotics

05/09/2019

Scientists have discovered how aquatic plants cope with water pollution, a major ecological question that could help boost their use in wastewater treatment, biofuels, antibiotics and other applications.

"Blue power" could make wastewater plants energy-independent

30/07/2019

Coastal wastewater treatment plants may be a nasty but necessary way to handle the effluent from our cities, but a new study by Stanford University indicates that they could also double as power plants to make them energy independent and carbon neutral. By mixing fresh water from the plants with seawater, the researchers say they have the potential to recover 18 gigawatts of electricity worldwide. ">Coastal wastewater treatment plants may be a nasty but necessary way to handle the effluent...

Bacterial communities for wastewater treatment system

13/05/2019

A University of Oklahoma-led interdisciplinary global study expands the understanding of activated sludge microbiomes for next-generation wastewater treatment and reuse systems enhanced by microbiome engineering. Wastewater treatment and reuse are critical to global health and sustaining a world population predicted to reach 10 billion by 2050.

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